I’m curious......

I just wanted to know if I’m the only ‘nutter’ out there that’s deliberately or otherwise chosen to have a manual gearbox on a new truck. It would seem so but if that’s the case when they were building it did they have to go to a dusty back area of the stores department for the manual specific parts, dust them off, instal them then find somebody in the factory that could remember how to drive it off the assembly line or are they a more popular than that? I just don’t know but out of nothing more than curiosity just wondered.